United States v. Hynes’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 754 · 1970
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Robinson (1977), United States v. Flannery (1971)
41 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. United States · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Simpson v. United States · United States v. Fioravanti · Green v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The charge is no more than a re-statement of the precepts which the trial judge almost invariably gives to guide the jurors’ deliberations in his original charge. Its function is to emphasize that a verdict is in the best interests of both prosecution and defense, and we adhere to the view that “[t]he considerable costs in money and time to both sides if a retrial is necessary certainly justify an instruction to the jury that if it is possible for them to reach a unanimous verdict without any juror yielding a conscientious conviction . . . they should do so.” United States v. Rao, 394 F.2d 354 , 355 (2d Cir. 1968).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Having consistently affirmed the rationale underlying such an instruction, we cannot logically take into account the fact it produced quick results here in deciding whether or not it should have been given in the first place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this circuit `has consistently reaffirmed its approval of the supplementary charge to encourage a verdict in the face of an apparent deadlock.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.